Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-14
THE TINES.
THE LAND OF CORN.
Give Honor to the COrn-GrOwer.
"A Letter From DIR.
Fisher
To the Editor of the Capital.


lines. the A. T. & s. F., whose road
bed, rolling stock, management and
service, are unsurpassed on the CONT
nent or on the glode, will furnish your
readers with most enchanting view of
the foundation of the wealth and pow
er of Kansas, and the cause OF Tope
ka's great prosperity and prospective
glory, for all along, far as vision car
ries is corn to the right Of you to be
seen, corn to the left Of you, onward
through corn went the noble five thou
sand honest hearted, happy faced far
mer boys, on the improved riding sulky
plows, turning the rich, black loan,
until the fields are covered with the
richest dark green Indian corn ever
seen this side of the far famed fields of
Goshen, of the tranquil Wabash or
Mama.
1t was corn that made Egypt more
famous than all her ancient lore and
gave here more enduring renown than
Syria, Asia or even her own pyramids,
for it was the corn of Egypt that at
tracted the twelve fathers of the patri-
archs of Israels family, brought the
virtuous Joseph to the view of the
world and recovered him to his distress
sed father. We are speeding along
the greatest corn belt of the continent,
and the mere mention of "belt" re-
minds us of something pleasing, and
others not quite so charming. We are
reminded of the prize ring belt, for
which sluggers slug each other almost
to death; and then the associated press
and the ordinary newspape slug the
reader with itemized brutal recital of
two brutes in human form, dressed al
most entirely in kid gloves, shying
their empty castors into ring made of
rope, and pummeling each other into
their natural consistency Gelly) to the
delight of a genteel crowd of gamblers,
pimps and warts Of society, and all this
is dished out in the great dailies in
heightened paragraphs, and in the WV
idly pictured illustrated papers of the
day, as if it were praiseworthy and
manly thing thus to expend muscle and
time instead of planting and cultivating
corn.
Then the champion base ball belt.
What belt that must be which at
tracts and holds so much attention and
consumes so much time, in the field by
the crowd and in the minute and costly
description of the force of the batter,
the skill of the catcher, the speed of
the runner, the "adroitness of the thief"
or stealer, the agility (0 of the whole
crowd except the umpire, who is ver-
liable 'chump, whatever that may be;
what stacks of Fabers, what columns
OF good space is utilized to the glory
of this rage, this national game and
then it is so conductive to muscle,
health and activity to spend whole af-
ternoon watching hired team play the
game for the money. No wonder gen.
tleman on the street said that the So
ciety and the base ball club of Topeka
had much to do with the growth of To-
peka in advertising her and drawing
capital.
With all due respect for the "Giants"
we would suggest that little more
appreciation of the producing element,
the laboring classes, the Drawn and
muscle which builds and beauties the
city, and makes the waste and barren
places glad, and to blossom as the rose,
would be very refreshing, indeed, and
might possibly Prove an incentive to
some tender plants to go work while it
is the day of great oppornities and pos
sibilities. The corn raisers are an hon
orable class and worthy of all praise,
and With the smiles of merciful PROV
idence, will reap rich reward In the
near future. With such a country,
such industrious farmers and such la
borers, what may not our cities and
states become. All praise to the intel
ligent, sober, religious yeomenry of
this Spartan young commonwealth,
whose march and rise has been through
difficulties to the stars. Best of all,
perhaps, is the fact that corn is not
rotted and distilled in Kansas to ''corn"
and kill our citizens and neighbors, but
to feed the nation. Long may it grow
and wave. II. d. FISHER.
A newspaper man has discovered
that il is impossible FOR newspapers to
boom town unless the people do lit
tle hoominp IN their own account in tho